Toast 6 and Audio CDs

[live4ever]

Has anyone been able to get Toast to write the disc title and track names you enter (advanced>audio cd>CDtext checked) on Audio CDs so that they appear in the finder?

All I ever get is Audio CD with 1 Audio Track etc. to show.

I have no problems with other disc types and DVDs though.

[Frobozz]

This is a Mac OS – not Toast – issue. The Mac does not read CD-Text. Instead it reads its CD database file from the hard drive. If it doesn't find a match there, it (via iTunes) looks for the disk title and track names from CDDB on the Internet. If it still can't find the info, it shows the generic Audio CD and Track 1, etc. titles. In that case you need to use iTunes to manually enter the titles so the info can be saved to the Mac's CD database file. Of course, when you put the CD into a different Mac you'll be back to the generic titles because the names aren't yet in that Mac's database.

There really is no use for CD Text unless you have a car or set-top CD player (such as many recent Sony models) that recognize the track information. Toast will read CD Text from CDs that aren't otherwise recognized. However, this only is true if your Mac's CD drive supports CD Text (most older ones do not).